so i just finished cramming information onto a notecard we’re allowed to bring in to the exam, and i’d like us all to take a moment to picture ford in this very situation…
like perhaps he’s fallen so behind in this one class (fiddleford DID warn him he was biting off more than he could chew that term…) that he was rushing to cram the material in his brain merely hours before the exam. luckily however, his professor allowed the students one notecard, front and back.
ford comes in on exam day with his notecard. it’s utterly crammed with terms and equations and any other helpful notes, written in a script so tiny and windswept that anyone else who’s not ford would have difficulty seeing it, let alone comprehending it. however in the middle of the test, ford drags out an old blacklight from his backpack and curls over with it glowing on his notecard.
the proctor is alarmed and confused at the sight, and after confronting ford, realizes that he’s written a SECOND layer of notes in homemade invisible ink. which he is then reading with his blacklight.
but they can’t do anything about it, because technically it’s still all on ONE double sided notecard.
in the end ford aces this exam and also inspires a dozen or so students to copy his invisible ink trick.
next year, backupsmore bans blacklights from testing rooms.
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